Data Creation

Information on creating, editing and enhancing descriptions.

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You may be interested in the Cataloguing Code of Ethics, produced by the Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee.

The Console, which contains the EAD Editor, is being retired. For more information please see the Console FAQ page.

An introduction.

Viewing your descriptions in our admin interface.

Create and edit descriptions in our cataloguing tool.

Persistent identifiers for archive descriptions.

Archives Hub mandatory fields for collections and items.

Creating more detailed descriptions,

Use of EAD tags and attributes

XML environments for creating EAD descriptions.